2. Click on one of the compressed files (tar, zip or bzip2) to download
the files. You can also download the demos to test what can be
done.

3. Now, decompress the files. If you downloaded the .zip files, use the
command gzip -d or gunzip. Look up the man page for gzip for more
information by typing at a command prompt: man
gzip

Unfortunately I came in problems trying to use gzip or gunzip, and the
error gzip: MesaDemos-3.2.zip: unknown suffix --
ignored occurred.

If you downloaded the .tar.gz files, use this command to uncompress the
files.

tar -xvzf name_of_file

In this case, I downloaded the Mesa-3.2 files (version numbers might be
different), so I used the command tar -xvzf
MesaLib-3.2.tar.gz

4. You might want to also download the demos. Decompress them the same
way you decompressed the Mesa libraries. They will be placed under the
new Mesa directory under the 'demos' directory.

5. Downloading the GL & Glut libraries.
If you don't have the Glut library, you will need to download and install
it to get it to run. To check whether or not you have the appropriate
directory or not, type: cd /usr/include/GLIf this resulted in an error, then you don't have the appropriate
directory and files.